The Keyes!

 Henry loves this decoration he made at Grandma's

The was some puzzling activity going on here last Sunday

The result was a completed 449 piece puzzle (can't find the 450th piece)

There is a couple in our ward that we have never met. During the heat of the pandemic they were Lyza's primary teachers and always sent her very thoughtful card in the mail. Kim got this handmade card from them congratulating her on her American citizenship.

We found Lyza's funny picture at school

Umm? Pickle juice?

There were some big changes in sleeping arrangements around here this week

Henry started sleeping on the bottom bunk with Mason on the top bunk

Nixon and I built a loft bed

And we put it in Henry's old room (the study) for Nixon's new room

He has been loving having his own room and Mason and Henry have both done surprisingly well sharing a room and sleeping in the same room

I think Henry is proud of his work

And look what Mason made

We started an advent candle this week from Aunt Terry

The moose visited this week

It enjoyed eating apples off the ground

The kids had a fun pajama/Christmas activity at the library this week

Lyza had a special chorus musical performance at City Hall this Friday evening that we got to attend. It was hard to see her because the crowd was so huge (think a Donald Trump rally: yuuuge)

Henry got a better view from up above

Her performance was quite entertaining and she did an excellent job

The boys got to see Santa afterward

And then we took the kids to Wendy's for the jr. frosties they got at Halloween

Saturday morning we woke up to snow

So we did some painting

After the snow stopped I took Nixon out in the afternoon to watch some bald eagles. We saw quite a few (maybe 10-20)

This one was in the tree for quite a while

Here it is from the other side

There were eagles in the sky but none were going for the fish in the lake so we decided to do some hiking on some new trails

In some fairly thick trees where no one else was we found this eagle that flew away shortly after getting its photo taken

The surrounding mountains looked really good with new snow fall

We don't normally see eagles fly so close to each other unless one is trying to steal a fish from the other but I happened to catch these two flying past each other

Nixon was an awesome companion on our adventure

Past where everyone watches the eagles we found lots of the dead fish washed up on the shore of the lake

Even though the eagles didn't seem too interested in fishing they were fun to watch and it was nice to get out with Nixon

Last night Kim got to go out for dinner with her friends for Mexican food

We hope you have a great week. Take care.